| 单词 |
stud-horse |
| 释义 |
ˈstud-horse
[f. stud n.2 + horse. Cf. ON. stóðhross.]
1. A stallion kept for breeding.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 176 Ᵹyf mon mæte þæt he feola stod horsa habbe. 1598Extracts Munic. Acc. Newcastle (1848) 46 Paid for their stoude horses meate, 5s. 1833Q. Rev. XLIX. 414 His lordship..at present has the stud-horse Lamplighter. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 185 He..challenged four stud-horses that belonged to us.
2. U.S. stud-horse poker: a variety of the game of poker. Also absol. (The usual form is now stud n.2 4 c or stud-poker s.v. stud n.2 5.)
1879Rep. Cases at Law Supreme Court of State of Arkansas (1881) XXXIV. 442 The proof..showed that he did bet chips, or checks, at a game played with cards, called ‘stud’, or ‘stud-horse’, poker; being somewhat different from other games called ‘straight poker’ and ‘draw poker’. 1882in Colorado Q. (1956) IV. iii. 271 Brownie Lea is leading stud horse at Del Norte. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 152 Every saloon had a gambling room, where poker, stud-horse poker, faro,..were usually hard at it. 1920C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson ii. 19 He's a travelin' eddicator in th' innercent game of draw—or was it studhoss, Nelson? |
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